Low cost, controlled crystallinity, chemical, and mechanical stability enable application of
polymers in energy, water, electronics, and biomedical industries. Recent studies have …

Nature has developed materials, objects, and processes that function from the macroscale to
the nanoscale. The emerging field of biomimetics allows one to mimic biology or nature to …

The adhesive strategy of the gecko relies on foot pads composed of specialized keratinous
foot-hairs called setae, which are subdivided into terminal spatulae of approximately 200 nm …

Stickybot is a bioinspired robot that climbs smooth vertical surfaces such as glass, plastic,
and ceramic tile at 4 cm/s. The robot employs several design principles adapted from the …

The amazing adhesion of gecko pads to almost any kind of surfaces has inspired a very
active research direction over the last decade: the investigation of how geckos achieve this …

The maturation of nanotechnology has revealed it to be a unique and distinct discipline
rather than a specialization within a larger field. Its textbook cannot afford to be a chemistry …

Functional integration is an inherent characteristic for multiscale structures of biological
materials. In this contribution, we first investigate the liquid–solid adhesive forces between …

In nature, millions of creatures, such as geckos, tree frogs, octopuses, etc., have evolved
fantastic switchable adhesion capabilities to climb swiftly on vertical even inverted surfaces …

To improve the adhesive properties of artificial fibrillar contact structures, the attachment
systems of beetles from the family Chrysomelidae were chosen to serve as a model …

Following a recent bioinspired paradigm, patterned surfaces can exhibit better adhesion
than flat contacts. Previous studies have verified that finer contact structures give rise to …